Yeah for some people e-readers are great. For others they ruin the experience of reading. I have an e-reader because there are some out of print books, particu

Yeah for some people e-readers are great. For others they ruin the experience of reading. I have an e-reader because there are some out of print books, particularly related to stage magic, that I can only find in digital form. But I despise reading on the thing. As much as "e-ink" is a better experience than reading on a computer screen, it still doesn't quite match the aesthetic and "ergonomic" qualities of reading ink on paper for me. The smell is missing. The joy of turning the pages is missing and if I'm dealing with a particularly large or graphic-heavy PDF then the performance problems remind me that I'm dealing with a piece of flawed modern technology that is still iterating towards perfection rather than the brilliant simplicity of a tool that has "just worked" near-perfectly for hundreds of years (with obvious caveats related to long-term storage and preservation). But I also don't travel much, I'm a home owner and I work from home so I don't have the majority of the problems that e-readers are good at solving. If I were moving a lot, had to commute for an hour or two each day or lived in a small condo then my book collection would be impractical and an e-reader would begin to look a lot different to me.